Week 5

Before class meets:

• • Learn about basic design principles by reading the blog post Design 101: What is graphic design?

  • Watch the tutorial Learn Canva - Create FREE Beautiful Graphic Designs.

  • Sign-up for a Canva account.

  • Sign up for a Imgur meme generator account.

  • Read "What is a meme? Here’s everything you need to know".

Assignments:

• • Using good graphic design principles design a poster that can be placed in your new school.

  • Create a meme.

  • Comment on at least 2 other blog post from other students.

Challenge Assignments: Choose at least one.

• • Complete the Graphic Design Basics course from Canva.

  • Design a flyer introducing your Nissaba course.

  • Design another graphic of your choice using Canva.

  • Find another meme maker and play.

Write a reflection in your blog.

• • How would you use these tools in your real classroom?

  • Narrate your process of designing a poster. How would you improve it next time?

  • What did you learn? What do you still need help with?

  • Attach your poster and any other digital artifacts you created this week.